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dlr-2869	Lilek, Brooke	Horrors of Society: The Reflection of Societal Fears in American Horror Films	2020	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4905	225	62	American horror films, however, took a sharp turn into the realm of ghosts and demons as society’s fears of enemies and threats we could tangibly identify and see warped into fears of terrorism, mental illness, and technology. Poltergeist (1982) invokes American parents’ brewing repression of technological fears and the impact these fears have on children who watch too much TV, whereas Poltergeist (2015) uses repressed fears of financial instability in an economy recovering from a recession to conjure the poltergeist figure.	cache/dlr-2869.pdf	txt/dlr-2869.txt